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Robert Malley, a distinguished diplomat, a man associated for many years

talking to the adversaries of the United States and Israel.

Robert Malley mysteriously suspended more than a year past from having credentials that allow him to see top secrets.

There are many kinds of top secrets, but if you have those credentials, you have carte blanche.

In the course of his negotiating negotiating we're told with the Islamic Republic of

Iran in order to reawaken and strengthen we're told the JCPOA of 2015. I welcome Ben and Ben Taliblo, Senior Fellow for the

Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, to help me understand this

latest version of why is Robert Malley no longer working as a diplomat for the

Biden administration with regard to Iran and the suspect nuclear weapons program.

The headline, Washington Examiner,

leading Republicans reveal allegations

on why Biden envoy to Iran was suspended.

This has technical language in it. It has to do with hacking and also what

appears to be a violation of State Department recommendations that you don't take secrets

home.

Ben, I'm a very good evening to you.

One way to take secrets home is to have them in your iPhone and according to the information provided by Chairman Mike McCall of House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Affairs

Ranking Member Jim Risch, Mr. Malley took secrets home in his iPhone and they were accessed

by a foreign bad actor.

Do we know any more about why or how or who?

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